Canadian Music Blog @canadianmusicblog.bsky.social Getting the rock and snowball rolling for fans of Canadian and international recording artists.
SaskMusic @saskmusic.bsky.social SaskMusic represents, promotes and develops the commercial music industry of Sask with guidance, education, export assistance, listings, marketing, advocacy & more.
We have staff in Regina and Saskatoon available for consultations in person and online.
The AM @theam.ca Weekly radio show on @cjsw.bsky.social hosted by @peterhemminger.com. Offbeat easy listening to start your week right. Live at cjsw.com every Monday morning from 7-10am MT, or stream past episodes at https://linktr.ee/the.am
Based in Treaty 7.
Marc-Xavier LeBlanc @bonesarchive.bsky.social Artiste/artist, exploration sonore/sonic exploration , passeur culturel/
Adriel Smiley @adrielsmiley.bsky.social More followers in real life.
📻 Radio Host | The Cool Table Live
🎙️ Co-Creator | Album Mode
Best Canadian Music Writing 2024 & 2025🍦
Tanya Beaumont @tanyabeaumont.bsky.social Journaliste culturelle à C'est encore mieux l'après-midi à Radio-Canada Québec.
❗️Attention: je commente aussi à propos de la lutte. 😁
peter @peterhemminger.com Comms professional in non-profit world. Former arts administrator. Increasingly skeptical of social media. he/him/they.
Host of @theam.ca
sena @sena-c.bsky.social music consultant 9-5 / silly rabbit 24/7
also: polaris music prize juror / DJ assistant @ kexp
Dylan Hudecki (The Dill, Slow Beach, Pure Phase Radio) @dylanhudecki.bsky.social Dad, musician, writer, radio DJ C101.5FM Mohawk College, music nerd, Polaris juror, Hamilton City Magazine Music contributor, bud.
www.thedill.ca
Mack @mackcbc.bsky.social associate producer + music columnist + audio tech for CBC Calgary • Polaris Music Prize juror
Nicholas Jennings @nicholasjennings.bsky.social 
Le Canal Auditif @lecanalauditif.bsky.social Le Canal Auditif est un média numérique québécois consacré aux musiques indépendantes, alternatives et émergentes d’ici et d’ailleurs. Il regroupe des collaboratrices et collaborateurs chevronn.é.e.s.
Phyllis Grant @phyllyirl.bsky.social Mi'gmaw artist from Pabineau First Nation, NB. Art, music, words. Welneweg Arts Collective, Polaris Music Prize, Prism Prize, Arts NB, Producer and host of Vinyl Love Forever at Phantom Radio, Rapper MO3, writer and filmmaker. https://linktr.ee/phyllyirl
@gormel.bsky.social @gormel.bsky.social 
Ben Waldman @benwaldman.bsky.social Winnipeg Free Press arts reporter, theatre appreciator, music enjoyer, book considerer, film ponderer, bagel eater
rosie long decter @rosield.bsky.social EIC at maisonneuve mag, community lead at @newfeelingcoop.bsky.social, otherwise humming
Scott Simpson @arthurscott.bsky.social Gatineau-Ottawa based. Freelance writer. Bilingue. Cofondateur du Pressoir. www.lepressoir.ca
Danica Bansie @danicabansie.bsky.social bopping along
Juror, Polaris Music Prize
Music Supervisor, Pirate Sound
James Keast @yesjameskeast.bsky.social Writer, editor, book reader, joke teller.
Ian Gormely @gormely.bsky.social Music dork, freelance writer, indoor kid.
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Matt Berry | Gin Drinker @chelsearoom.bsky.social Exploring gin, classic cocktails, Canadian spirits and some music stuff too
📍 Calgary
Backxwash @backxwash.bsky.social Album 2025
https://linktr.ee/backxwash
Michael Elves @melves.bsky.social Radio guy (he/him)
https://linktr.ee/melves
Sean Michaels @swanmichaels.bsky.social Writer: DO YOU REMEMBER BEING BORN? 💐 (2023), THE WAGERS (2019), US CONDUCTORS (2014) • Founded 🎶 http://saidthegramophone.com • http://www.byseanmichaels.com • he/him
Pierre Landry @pierrelandry73.bsky.social Animateur / Host @ CHOM 97.7
Mélomane / Music buff
Shawn Conner @shawnconner.bsky.social Proto-journalist making way for AI. 
Cédric Bélanger @cedricbelangerjdq.bsky.social Journaliste aux Arts et Spectacles. Journal de Québec et Journal de Montréal.
Marie-Kim D-B @kimosaurusmkdb.bsky.social Travailleuse de la culture. Fan de festivals, de musique et d'arts de la scène. Fan de 🍕 et de 🍷 aussi.
@maxmertens.bsky.social @maxmertens.bsky.social 
Marsha Lederman @marshalederman.bsky.social Columnist, The Globe and Mail
Author, Kiss the Red Stairs: The Holocaust, Once Removed
Vancouver, Canada
Jill Krajewski @jillkrajewski.bsky.social editor/writer
in film, vulture, etc
mostly on ig
Sun Noor @sunnoor.bsky.social 
Del Cowie @delcowie.bsky.social Writer @hiphopevolution ,This Is Pop (Netflix)/Black Community Mixtapes (Prime Video) /Black Life (CBC) /Bibliophonic editor @invisibooks
Demi @demarjgrant.bsky.social Investigative Reporter at the Investigative Journalism Bureau & Co-Creator of Album Mode
sharine taylor @shharine.co small forward at @dontcallmebaby.club
music & culture writer.
film & tv production designer.
💌: https://shharine.co
🔗: https://productiondesign.shharine.co
raina douris @rahrahraina.bsky.social host & writer of world cafe, heard nationally daily from npr & produced at wxpn // voice on pretty dim wonder & pixar's sodas// formerly cbc // instagram: rahrahraina // friend to all
Erik Leijon @erikleijon.bsky.social Executive producer, Montreal Gazette
Darcy MacDonald @darcymacdonald.bsky.social Music and arts journalist, freelance writer, recovering addict, aspiring pile of ashes.
Emily Plunkett @emilyplunkett.bsky.social The only thing that is certain about me is that I am Canadian, and I love music. Anything else is anyone's best guess.
Photog/Writer: Canadian Beats
Juror: Polaris Music Prize
Instagram: @missemilyplunkett
(She/Her)
Richie Assaly @rdassaly.bsky.social Writes about music, books and politics.
https://linktr.ee/richieassaly
Dooshima @itsdooshima.bsky.social Here, There, Everywhere. Afros In Tha City 
KingJMusicMan (Jason MacNeil) @kingjmusicman.bsky.social freelance writer for Ft. Myers Magazine, BroadStreetHockey.com PartonAndPearl.com and other publications. Formerly contributed to The Toronto Sun, Billboard, AllMusic.com, NME, Santa Cruz Sentinel, Long Island Pulse and Montana Press among others. 
Jamie Tennant @jtennant.bsky.social Writer, editor, broadcaster, pop culture enthusiast. Host of the GET LIT SHOW and author of The Captain of Kinnoull Hill and River, Diverted https://tinyurl.com/2vydhc3p
Lisa Lagace @lisalagace.bsky.social Writer.
Anya Mia @anyamia.bsky.social Writer, editor, singer-songwriter, musician. Cat companion.
Bondo @bondosucks.bsky.social Music Nerd || Radio Host || Program/Music Director at CHSR-FM || Polaris Music Prize juror || Bookworm || #BlueJays & Baseball enthusiast || Horror fan
Kerilie McDowall @kerilie.bsky.social In the Zen Jazz and Creative blog. journeyed jazz, life. 17x award-winning TV Director/jazz short filmmaker/guitarist/radio producer Kerilie McDowall. https://kerilie.com
Ryan B. Patrick @urbanguy.bsky.social I do what I can
Sarah Mackenzie @sarahmackenzie.bsky.social filmmaker, curator, director of MUTEK Forum- R Ro P @rosheeka.bsky.social PhD Candidate, Musicology, UWO | EDI Researcher | Classical Guitarist
Pronouns: she/they
Stuart Berman @stuberman.bsky.social Producer at COMMOTION (CBC Radio 1); writer for Pitchfork, Bandcamp Daily; author of THIS BOOK IS BROKEN: A Broken Social Scene Story + TOO MUCH TROUBLE: A Very Oral History of Danko Jones; publisher of stubermania.substack.com + hamontlive.substack.com
yara el-soueidi @yaraelsoueidi.bsky.social Writer. Music Journalist. Montrealer. Millennial. Your favourite It-Girl. Always depressed, never bland.
www.yaraelsoueidi.com
Mitch Pollock @mitchpollock.bsky.social Producer and music hot take-haver for Q on CBC. Overly competitive rec curler. Currently running two different campaigns of Gloomhaven.
Michael Rancic @therewasnosound.bsky.social arts & culture journalist
co-founder @newfeelingcoop.bsky.social
writing a book about the history of electronic music in so-called canada for @invisibooks.bsky.social
Donald Teplyske- Fervor Coulee: Roots Music Opinion [he/him] @fervorcoulee.bsky.social Where Daydream Believers, Bobbie Gentry, Bluegrass, Bruce, Billie, Bragg, Hazel Dickens, Billy Strings, "Big Beat,” “Beauty & the Beat," & "Bela Lugosi's Dead" meet. fervorcoulee.wordpress.com & cjsr.com My father was Métis; I'll figure out who I am. 🍁
Adrien Begrand @adrienbegrand.bsky.social 'Cranking Up Rush: Their Musical Legacy in 11 Songs', out now!
https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781493084746/Cranking-Up-Rush-Their-Musical-Legacy-in-11-Songs
brennan mccracken @brenmccracken.bsky.social phd candidate @ concordia 〰️ the novel, ecology, form 〰️ he/him 〰️ mccracken.brennan@gmail.com
Sarah Bea Milner @sarahbeamilner.bsky.social Editor, Writer // Seen in Polygon, Inverse, TMR, Kidscreen, /Film, Exclaim, ThatShelf, & more // Formerly:🎵 Polaris Prize Jury Member, The Griddle Pickers, Trent Radio //
Erin MacLeod @touchofallright.bsky.social I teach teens about lit and theory. Also, Polaris Prize jury foreperson, working on M&E, coms, español, français and sleeping. Settler In Montréal. https://www.youtube.com/@ErinExplainsStuff
Josephine Cruz @jayemkayem.bsky.social music producer/dj + former pop culture writer/editor + internet radio mom + horchata enthusiast + serial bio updater
Alan Cross🇨🇦 @alancross.bsky.social Canadian radio, TV, music, and internet guy. My business card reads “Professional Music Geek.” I’m all about English bull terriers. And I follow politics.
Music News: https://www.ajournalofmusicalthings.com/
Em Moore @emmoore.bsky.social Editor at Punknews
Polaris Music Prize Juror
Freelance writer, editor, and podcaster
Canadian punk
She/they
https://linktr.ee/emcmoore?fbc
sarah macdonald @sarahsmacdonald.bsky.social professionally: editor, culture writer. personally: basketball sicko. past: vice, cbc. 🪐
https://www.sarahsmacdonald.com
Brian Fauteux @brianfauteux.bsky.social Popular music and media studies professor at the University of Alberta. Co-host of WDWK on CJSR 88.5 FM. Polaris Prize jury. Alberta Music board.
Music in Orbit now available: https://www.ucpress.edu/books/music-in-orbit/paper
QCIndie Regina @qcindiedotcom.bsky.social http://QCIndie.com is YOUR indie! #yqr's home for all things alternative. Managed by @picpak.bsky.social
MakesMeWannaUke🇨🇦 @makesmewannauke.bsky.social Jane
Elbows Up 🇨🇦 #BlueJays
#HamOnt, Canada
Trans Rights are Human Rights 🏳️⚧️
Lefty, Uker, Hiker, Knitter, Swimmer, Yogini. Poodle Owner. Masked and Vaxxed. World Junior Hockey.
I can’t keep up with my followers. Asking for dispensation 🙏
FRINGE MUSIC FIX 🇨🇦 @fringemusicfix.com Feat. int'l alt-pop, LGBTQ+ voices, Northern Ontario music & emerging artists via weekly playlists & nightly music videos. Curated by Alex (he/they)
Eric Grosjean @ericgrosjean.bsky.social Producteur de rendez-vous radiophoniques à travers la francophonie 📻🎧
rosina @xyzena.bsky.social touchin’ grass.
college radio, art, siamese cats.
CJSW 90.9FM @cjsw.bsky.social Calgary’s only campus & community radio station. Just us, not always them.
ON AIR 90.9FM • ON DEMAND CJSW.COM
Jason Schneider Media @jasonschneidermedia.com Canadian music PR company. @AmericanaFest member.
Author of seven books including The City Knows: A Novel + That Gun In Your Hand: the Strange Saga of 'Hey Joe' and Popular Music's History of Violence
Purchase links: lnk.bio/JasonSchneiderBooks
Killbeat @killbeat.bsky.social Canadian Based Music Publicity www.killbeatmusic.com
The Graveyard Tapes @thegraveyardtapes.bsky.social Meet Finn Valentine, a supernatural private eye who will take your case, if the price is right. Follow his adventures and follies in the Queen City wherever you find your favorite podcasts. And save him a pint, yeah?
91.3FM CJTR, AccessNow Community Radio @accessnowradio.ca Volunteer created, nonprofit radio.
Tuned into Your Community!
www.accessnowradio.ca
Aaron Brophy @aaronjjbrophy.bsky.social Mostly writing and editing. Some amateur sports psychology. Polaris Music Prize.
kate killet @katekillet.bsky.social music documentarian, photographer, writer, event producer & booker @ POSIVIBEZ, vinyl DJ, host, punk “singer” & more… /she-ish queer weirdo
Alan Ranta (ꜱᴏ ᴡʜᴀᴛ?) @alanranta.bsky.social Rants about things, usually music, sometimes for money. Bylines seen in PopMatters, Bandcamp, Georgia Straight and Exclaim! Longtime juror for the Polaris Prize and Juno Awards.
Mixes & Musings: https://linktr.ee/alanranta
ⓘ this user is woke
Cadence Weapon @cadenceweapon.bsky.social 📩 grant@midnightagency.com (booking)
📨 helen@sixshooterrecords.com (mgmt)
https://sixshooterrecords.lnk.to/Forager
cadenceweapon.substack.com
linktr.ee/cadenceweapon
Dave MacIntyre @davemacattack.bsky.social Writer/contributing music editor for Cult MTL. Also Postmedia and Exclaim!, among others. YouTuber @Sound_Plus_Vision. Polaris Music Prize juror. Calgarian in MTL. Not related to Reba. Opinions mine. (he/him) 🇵🇸🇱🇧🇺🇦
All inquiries to dave.mac609@gmail.com
Witchpolice Radio @witchpoliceradio.bsky.social Acclaimed Manitoba-centric music interview podcast. Hosted by journalism guy/record nerd. He/him. Polaris juror.
http://www.witchpolice.com or wherever you get your podcasts.
coolckcu @coolckcu.bsky.social A radio show Thursday mornings, 9:30-noon on CKCU 93.1 FM or ckcufm.com. Juror for the Polaris Music Prize and the Prism Prize. coolckcu.com
Michael Feuerstack @mfeuerstack.bsky.social singer & songer
music stylist
mild producer
freelance dipshit
he/him
michaelfeuerstack.com
Chad Brunet @cradula.bsky.social Program Director at CJSR-FM 88.5, host of It Could Worse. 
Hand Drawn Dracula @handdrawndracula.bsky.social Record Label : Bonnie Trash • Breeze • Dermabrasion • Fake Palms • No Joy • Prince Josh • Robert Ascroft • Sook-Yin Lee • Tallies • Tess Parks 🙂🙃🙂
https://handdrawndracula.bandcamp.com
https://linktr.ee/handdrawndracula
Leslie Ken Chu @lesliekenchu.bsky.social Music journalist. Arts organizer. Co-founder of @newfeelingcoop.bsky.social. Vancouver, BC. https://linktr.ee/lesliekenchu
Carl Wilson @carlzoilus.bsky.social Music critic for Slate, freelance writer/editor/etc in Toronto (and available for work!), author of Let's Talk About Love: A Journey to the End of Taste, founding associate of Trampoline Hall.
DOMINIONATED @dominionated.bsky.social Was Canada’s best Canadian-only music site (in our opinion) • 2016-2025 dominionated.ca
Sub Pop Records @subpop.bsky.social Going out of business since 1988.
We’re not the best, but we’re pretty good.
www.subpop.com
Craig Silliphant @craigsilliphant.bsky.social Writer. Creative Director. Broadcaster. Movie Geek. Music Perv. Family man. Saskatoon booster.
Jennie Punter @jenniepunter.bsky.social Editor @Musicworksmag. @Variety contributor. Musician, cyclist, reader, mom, dog wrangler, hack gardener. TFCA member, Wavelength Music board prez, Polaris Music Prize juror. Docu whisperer. she/her
the act of just being [t]here @handle.invalid Part music criticism, part nostalgic over-analysis, and deeply unnecessary to all but a niche audience of one (me).
https://www.theactofjustbeingthere.ca/
Tom Beedham @tombeedham.bsky.social Freelance writer (Musicworks, Exclaim!, VICE, The Grind). Co-founder, New Feeling. Managing Director, Long Winter. He/him.
tbeedham88@gmail.com📩
Exclaim! @exclaimdotca.bsky.social Canada's authority on music, film and comedy. Find us at exclaim.ca
tincanman @tincanman.bsky.social "A really punny guy. You should follow him." - Aristotle
#nanoinfluencer
#BillW
Dani Elwell @danielwell.bsky.social Family, music, food, geographical views. 40+ years of radio!
For more info danielwell.com.
NEW FEELING @newfeelingcoop.bsky.social A cooperative of music journalists and community enthusiastically covering the sounds across so-called Canada.
newfeeling.ca
David McPherson @davidmcphersonca.bsky.social Author. 101 FASCINATING CANADIAN MUSIC FACTS; MASSEY HALL; THE LEGENDARY HORSESHOE TAVERN: A COMPLETE HISTORY. Journalist. Cyclist. Voracious reader. Sober. Music is the Elixir of Life.